3 posts tagged ‘adaptations’
Jessica Chastain Isn’t Going to Play Evelyn Hugo
Vulture,
Please don’t chip your tooth kissing the screen.
A Sense of Mystery and Wonder in a New “Color Purple”
The New Yorker,
Blitz Bazawule’s second feature catches the novel and musical’s extremes of sorrow and joy, love and memory.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians adaptation looks not awful
Boing Boing,
Adaptations of books aren't always terrible – No Country for Old Men would like to have a word – but there are certainly more bad ones than great ones. Take, for instance, 2010's movie adaptation of the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians book, which I was unfortunate enough to see in theaters as a kid with way too much interest in Greek mythology. — Read the rest